Cairo Mary, bouncer at Shanghai Reds (5th and Beacon in San Pedro, CA) escorts a customer to the door. 19532yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandmother posing me on the end of the Rock Island Dam, TN, 1964 and then me in the same spot today. (Sorry poor quality 8mm capture)2yr ⋅ Runner_one ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Lost my mom today, this her on her First Communion. Albany, NY circa 1941. RIP ❤3yr ⋅ GreasyBuffalo ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Grandfather, Great-Grandfather, Great-Great-Grandfather, and Great-Great-Great Grandmother, ca 19186yr ⋅ RckLbstr ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
An aunt on my wife's side passed recently, and she left copies of her recipes10mo ⋅ ExtinctFauna ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Ten-month-old Earl Barnes, 1890. He was raised in two different orphanages from age five and went on to serve in World War I.1yr ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Annie, seven, and one-year-old Nellie, outside their house in Spitalfields. They were among ten children born to single mother Annie Daniels. 19122yr ⋅ chipsandsourcream1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandparents, late 70’s I believe. Found while making a collage for the old mans visitation.. can’t believe how cool they are. Until next time papaw.3yr ⋅ livingdoll101 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Grandparents; picture taken in 1955, alongside their house in rural Illinois. They raised eight children here, during the hard years of the depression. Born in the 1880's, they always seemed ancient to me. Here's a hard truth: I'm older today myself than they were in this photo! [OC]1yr ⋅ No-Pair74 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Kids being kids, East 167th Street, South Bronx, NY, 197311mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The Way We Were in the 70s; my brother on the left died this week from heart attack4yr ⋅ thrifterbynature ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Sarah Matilda Grandon Cook, I guesstimate in the early 1880s sometime, when she was about twenty. She looks very young but she was old enough to wear her hair up. Sarah went on to have at least ten children.7mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Annie Edson Taylor and her cat, pose with the barrel she went over Niagara Falls in, 1901. 1wk ⋅ -11H17NO3- ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandad (left) “chaperoning” his older sister and her boyfriend. Approx 1949.7mo ⋅ KitG42 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Great-Grandma Doreen Dutrizac, spitfire, WW2 veteran, , kicked her abusive husband to the curb in 1940, was a single mum before social services existed, then lived in sin happily with a man she met in the 1950s. Reputation be damned.3mo ⋅ avalon18 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Probably the coolest train you will see today: The Mercury (1940s)9mo ⋅ BaronVonBroccoli ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Watch me do me! Girlfriends goofing around, c. 1940's. Earl McCann Collection.1yr ⋅ FlamingoEvery5528 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A Cough drop salesman on the streets of London, 1877. “One Night Cough Syrup” was sold in the late 1800s, and it contained alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, and morphine. It was available over the counter and promised to eliminate your cough in one night so you could sleep.3mo ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Mom and son saying goodbye to grandma. Found Kodachrome slide circa 1950.2yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A man shovels snow from a driveway in Albuquerque, New Mexico (December 5, 1969)1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Daguerreotype of a blind man wearing tinted glasses, holding a cat, c. 1850. George Eastman Museum2yr ⋅ KatyaRomici00 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Man on a penny-farthing bicycle being chased by his sister (Maggie & Bob Spiers) – West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia c. 19001yr ⋅ Same_Distribution ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great-grandfather (left) and his parents. Estado de Mexico, Mexico, 1930s.1yr ⋅ Various-Signature-60 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Great Aunt Letha, who was mother to me, and whom I loved vey much (is someone cutting onions in here?) passed on to be with her beloved family. She was born in January 1912, 3 months before the Titanic sank. She used to say If its changed, then Ive seen it. Id say 108 years is pretty good.4yr ⋅ Gatsby1964 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Me in my Brownie Scout uniform in Grand Island, New York (1952)2yr ⋅ leslieanneperry ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Photograph of a Native American woman, circa late 1800's (Photo by Bisbee Studios, Irwin Arizona via UNLV Archives)11mo ⋅ morganmonroe81 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Me circa 1965 in a suit and bow tie made by my mom. She made all our clothes back then.2yr ⋅ trophyguy ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My father was born 106 years ago today – on May 26, 1916. On May 24, 1954, two days before his 38th birthday, he died of cancer (he was a chemist). I was nine, my brother was seven, and my sister was not yet two.2yr ⋅ leslieanneperry ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandparents looking like movie stars on their wedding day. Montgomery, Alabama. 19466yr ⋅ greedowallskin ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Grandpa Jerry and his dog, Lady, ca. early 70s. He recently retired after working on the railroad for more than 50 years.1yr ⋅ chalamets_pesca ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Somebody’s Memaw was the life of the party! (Late 60s/early 70s)5mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Wedding portrait, Minnesota, 1911. Note the delicate lace on the bride’s high-necked blouse.2wk ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Millie In Her Graduation Dress, Circa 1940s. This is a photo that I bought recently.1yr ⋅ BurbotCusk ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
my Romanian great-grandparents at the start of what would be a very dysfunctional marriage (1900)1yr ⋅ Beginning-Skill-3990 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A 92 year-old woman knitting in front of the poorhouse where she had lived for 32 years. More info about her in the comments. Svinhult, Sweden in 1912.2yr ⋅ eam2468 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Here is Ike who has found another stick. Living at the beach meant that a leather collar would not last long. He didn't need a leash. He was so friendly he would walk up to any dog to say hello. 1970s1yr ⋅ YZXFILE ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
This is the wedding photo of Eunice Beale and Roy Whetstone, taken on November 27, 1918. Nothing about the seventeen-year-old bride’s clothes strikes me as bridal, but perhaps she could not afford a fancy white dress.7mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Glorious Kodachrome shot of a lady all dressed up on her car. Guessing it to be 1950s?2yr ⋅ CourtneyFish-Lately ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Selma was sent to the store for a pot of soup and a bottle of milk. Lodz, 1938 - By Roman Vishniac.1yr ⋅ Pavel-Romanov ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Old school photo visual effect. My mother on her wedding day in 1975.11mo ⋅ Ohshutyourmouth ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Me and my best friends, 1977. The girl second from right passed away yesterday. I was looking for pics to share with her kids and found this.5mo ⋅ love2Bsingle ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My sister and me 1963. The photographer told us to not smile which made us giggle.1wk ⋅ andsusie ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Grandfather doing a fire dance while performing with his band the Beachcombers. Somewhere in Hawaii about 50 + years ago.2yr ⋅ imchillychill ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Mom and dad on their wedding day. December 16, 1978 in Tonacatepeque, El Salvador. They're the best people I know.3yr ⋅ dondizzle ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
This picture of my Great Grandpa at 15 in 1940 looks like it could have been taken yesterday3yr ⋅ Radioactive_Bee ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
my grandmother won a beauty pageant when she was 15 back in 1960, Astoria New York <35mo ⋅ Internal_Scale3991 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My dad worked at a Ford dealership in Detroit. Everyone was pretty hyped about the Mustang. 19642yr ⋅ sticky_wickett ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Cyril Kenneth Penman (24) and Teresina Evelina Taylor-Smith (26), my grandparents, on their wedding day in London, July 1932.1yr ⋅ SamuelAgboola ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My mom (bottom left) and her family dressed up for a bicentennial celebration 19763wk ⋅ a_complex_kid ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Dad, just shy of his 18th birthday, gets ready to go off to war in Kodiak Alaska in 1944. He will be 95 this September and still lives in Juneau Alaska where he first arrived as a two year old in 1928.3yr ⋅ First_Speaker4038 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My Grandpa’s schoolhouse in Texas ca. 1930’s. He was always embarrassed of this picture because he was too poor to afford shoes.6yr ⋅ thenewfrost ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My dad about to run away and find his Suzy Bishop. Oregon circa 1970.6yr ⋅ harrietpa ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My grandmother (left) was a famous concert pianist with her assistant flying to Chicago to perform(1955 details in the comments)...1yr ⋅ Throwawayiea ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My 98 year-old Grandmother passed away last week. Here she is in Chicago around 1940 living it up!4yr ⋅ Dupree9973 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A bartender identified only as “Hugo” posing behind the plank of a bar, with a waitress, in Buffalo, New York in 1948.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My great-aunt Elizabeth as a young girl a century ago (c. 1923)8mo ⋅ SnoopySister1972 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
My dear grandpa and grandma. Turkey, 70s I guess. We lost him due to Alzheimer's disease last year. He was actually like a fun friend to me. rip 🖤1yr ⋅ xenox_0725 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Photograph caption reads: The bodyguard known as Lori, her .357 equalizer, and her Beverly Hills (CA) employer, ex-policeman Herman Marx. Photograph dated: May 16, 1982.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
This young man is Bud Care. He's wearing a Space Ranger T-Shirt with Cub Scout pants & belt. Shot by his father, Ross J. Care, at 5806 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (Paxtonia), Pennsylvania, USA. 1953. From a Kodachrome slide film. One of the many photos left to Bud by his dad.2yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Clearfield County, Pennsylvania gals giving the camera the stink-eye, 1930s.1yr ⋅ homeless-king ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Young couple posing for a portrait, Pittsburgh, late 1930s (photographed by Charles Teenie Harris)2yr ⋅ Str33twise84 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Three kids hanging out in Nebraska c. 1910 Photograph by Frederick Blaine Humphrey.5mo ⋅ Sweet-Peanuts ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
March 22nd, 1939: Ohio Youngster of 13 Gives Birth to Son; Father of the Youthful Family Is Only 15 (r/Minnesota_Archived)1mo ⋅ lasocs ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A Snow Lady, 1892. Not sure exactly where this picture was taken 🤔3mo ⋅ xXHarleen_QuinzelXx ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
This family photo was photographed by Gainesville, GA photographer, Nathan C. White, circa 1910-1918. From my glass negative collection.1yr ⋅ memorylanepr ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Harry's van. Late 70's. Headed upstate NY for a weekend camping trip.3yr ⋅ Durhamfarmhouse ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
An aircraft worker dancing with his date at the Lockheed 'Swing Shift Dance' in 19422yr ⋅ MyDogGoldi ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
(1948) A group photo of store detectives hired by Macy’s. They posed backwards to protect their identities2yr ⋅ johnnylgarfield ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Get a load of all that Avocado Green! GE kitchen appliances ad from the 1970s3mo ⋅ Quick_Presentation11 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Mother and daughter on the island Uto in Sweden ca. 1910-1915. This is an original colour photo, not a colourisation. More info in comments.2yr ⋅ eam2468 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Coffee shop at the Royal Palms Motel in Bakersfield, California 19663yr ⋅ HellsJuggernaut ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Tobacco going to market on a sled near Stockton, Georgia in 1936. Farm Security Administration, Carl Mydans photographer.1mo ⋅ NickelPlatedEmperor ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
In 1958, car seat safety was rudimentary, with seats not being equipped with any straps. Instead, these seats depended on the mother extending her arm to prevent the baby from toppling forward.4mo ⋅ jocke75 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A great-grandmother, Thelma Blanche Schambers, with her great-grandkids in 19763mo ⋅ CatPooedInMyShoe ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Rural life in England, photographed by William Morris Grundy In 1855. This is part of a series of images that provide a surprisingly high-quality snapshot of how life was in the countryside. The rest of his series is linked in the comments.5mo ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
